Author: Hikari
E-mail: Machi_NO_Tenshi@Excite.Com
Story: Tenderly
Part: Pre-prologue
Rating: G


@TENDERLY@
by Hikari.


Author’s Foreword:

	This story is dedicated to a dear friend of mine whom for 
courtesy, I will restrain the disclosure of any specific details 
about her.  All you really need to know is that this was based on 
a true story (her life) and that I will try to do justice to the 
situations.  It is a story about being in an abusive relationship 
and in many times, the story may get quite depressing and/or graphic, 
then again... it may not; I will not give away anything.  It is my 
duty to maintain the story’s main point across, so if you do not 
wish to read this, I understand...  yet if you are one of the people 
that ARE, or know someone in an abusive relationship, I implore you 
to read this story. I am not saying that what happened to *Kara was 
the worst that could ever happen... all I know is that it changed 
her.




To *Kara* and anyone who has gone though what she went through...:

	Never forget that there is always someone who you can 
count on, and that TRUE LOVE (and any other type of love) is 
never supposed to be painful. Value yourself, and NEVER lower 
your standards (as long as they’re achievable)... you formed them 
for a reason.  And remember that everything in life is fixable 
and/or replaceable, except death... so always value your life, for 
there are many people out there that care for you.





*Kara, of course, is not her real name.